Overnight Open Thread (11-5-2012) – Election Jitters Edition

Now you might think that the one place you could go and not hear anything more about the election and polls would be a foreign country - but you'd be wrong.

There's been fairly regular coverage all during the day here in Germany and in fact they actually covered an Obama rally in OH live. The media here is so biased that it makes MSNBC seem fair-mindedly middle of the road. Just one of the minor forms of bias is the fact that Obama statements are generally translated directly into German while Romney statements are always summarized (negatively) by analysts. As best I can tell from my limited German Mitt Romney is actually George Bush wearing a CEO skin and he hates dogs, brown people, and uninsured children.

So it's not surprising that Romney is losing here to Obama by 92% to 8%. I suspect even a Pol Pot-Jeff Dahmer ticket could eke out at least 5% support. The few Germans I've talked to about the election seem genuinely mystified that Romney is considered to even have a shot at beating Obama. The media has left Germans completely unprepared for anything other than an Obama victory so I suspect that Wednesday morning to going to be quite schockierend for them. And then I'll get to find out whether schadenfreude really does taste better in it's native land.

Sure Stacey Hessler abandoned her husband and children in Florida to go protest in New York (and occupy the tent of a young male occupier), but clearly she deserves most of her husband's retirement account.

The mother-of-four who made headlines last year leaving her children to go join Occupy Wall Street is divorcing her husband and cashing in on his banking-earned riches in the process. Stacey Hessler cites protesting as her profession and famously devoted herself to the Occupy movement, demonstrating against the very banks behind her recently increased cash-flow. She walks away from former banker Curtiss Hessler with a total of $85,385 from his stock-filled retirement fund and bank account.

But then he keeps the kids, the house, and her out of his life forever. So maybe it's worth it.

Curtis will keep the $65,000 house under the settlement and assumes the $13,000 mortgage. He gets sole custody of their four children: Peyton,18, Kennedy,16, Sullivan, 14, and Veda, 8. They can see their mom at any time but only in a 'safe environment' the papers dictate.